Well myself and some of our team just returned from Phoenix for one of our industry seminars. I thought I’d share some of the highlights & quotes from the seminar speakers:

• We are all better to wear out than to rust out.
• Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.
• Comfort comes as a guest, lingers as a host, and stays to enslave us.
• Mastery is nothing more than the desire to do better & better at something that matters to YOU.
• We are limitless.  We can muster up more of anything.
• God’s waiting room is the drug store!!
• Sometimes if God’s out of town, you’ve got to fill in for him, so live a powerful, purposeful life.
• A subluxation of the spine is interference to your nerve system and therefore interference to your potential. 
• The Universe will not bring you things if you aren’t ready.
• Continue to ask yourself, what is my potential?
• Gratitude increases your vibrational state.  Remember to give thanks each day.
• You have 60,000 thoughts each day. 95% of these are the same as yesterday. 80% are negative and non-supportive thoughts.
• If you are in fear, you cannot be in faith.  Just like as if you are in the dark, you aren’t in the light.
• A negative emotion is simply re-living the past because you had to bring that emotion back from somewhere.

 And lastly Dr. Richard Barwell gave us a terrific neuroscience update of chiropractic, subluxation and the adjustment.  This is what he emphasized.

One of the biggest challenges to chiropractic is to overcome the concept that you get adjusted because you have a ‘bone out of place.’  In fact it’s extremely rare that a bone, ie vertebra, is putting direct pressure on a nerve.  This fallacy is further substantiated when you hear things like, “I’m getting my back cracked” because obviously we associate the cracking sound with the bones. 

A better definition of a subluxation is compromised neural integrity that is created by emotional, chemical, structural or other stressors.  This compromised neural integrity causes us to adapt to our environment inappropriately.  True health equals proper adaption from the environment.  And if there is improper input in the form of a chemical, environmental, physical, or psychosocial stress, then this can lead to a subluxation causing improper nerve system output to the environment.  In other words, we aren’t adapting well.

When we perform your examinations, you’ll notice that we measuring nerve system function through the surface EMG scans, the thermography scans and the heart rate variability test.  All these measure nerve system function.

I realize for some of you this just sounds like we are making a mountain out a mole hill.  But all the doctors and staff here want you to not only enjoy the benefits of your chiropractic adjustment, but also to understand why you get those benefits.  When your communication system, ie your nerve system, receives and responds to stimuli from the environment in a healthy way through your central nervous system (your brain and spinal cord) then you will be healthier.  The chiropractic adjustment as defined by Dr. Barwell is ‘a procedure whereby the consequence of an action serves to continually modify further action within the nervous system with the intent of creating harmony within the body’s systems.”

Finally, Dr. Barwell, concluded with giving us a definition of wellness from Mosby’s Medical, Nursing & Allied Health Dictionary which we think bears repeating:

Wellness is a dynamic state of health in which an individual progresses toward higher level of functioning, achieving an optimum balance between internal and external environments.

MAKE IT A GREAT WEEK AS ONLY YOU CAN.

Just got back from an amazing trip to Chicago where The Masters Circle held a fantastic seminar for chiropractors, staff and family.  I was able to present on a topic called, “Why Wellness Works.”  Of course much of my presentation revolved around the Eight Weeks to Wellness Program.  8WW is changing lives one person, one community, one city, one city, and eventually one country at a time.  A program that consists of chiropractic care, on-site hard exercise, a healthy eating program, massage therapy and meditation instruction, how can you go wrong?  If fact you can only GO RIGHT.  So share 8WW with your family and friends.  It IS how we will change the face of healthcare in America by taking the focus off of sickness care and disease prevention, and placing it on wellness care and restoring God-given health potential.  Make it a great week!!!  Spring is right around the corner.  Yipeeee.

Dr. Dane’s, co-founder of 8WW, is flying to Chicago on Thursday, to celebrate the grand opening of Dr. Jason Fennema’s 8WW center, the Ravenswood Health Center holding their first 8WW orientation 2/18/2010.  Dr. Fennema and his team are making a difference in the health of the people of Chicago.  Way to go!

Hello, and welcome to the 8 Weeks to Wellness (8WW) blog!

My name is Dr. Denise Chranowski. Together with my twin brother and fellow chiropractor, Dr. Dane Donohue, I developed the 8WW program to help empower people of all ages to take responsibility for their own well-being and positively impact their God-given true health potential.

8WW will help you optimize what you think about, how you eat and supplement, and how you exercise and care for your body. As reinforcement for our comprehensive wellness program, we’ve updated our website, launched interactive profiles on Twitter, Facebook and YouTube, and created this blog to support you as you learn how to live a happier, healthier life.

Check back often as we’ll be sharing practical exercise tips, recipes and advice for healthy eating, success stories from 8WW patients, before-and-after photos, videos and much more.

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